Company Description:
You can help bring our villages to life!
Bring your HRIS and payroll systems expertise to a role where you can make a real impact across People & Culture, Payroll and the wider business.
At Summerset, we are passionate about creating vibrant communities where our residents can live the life they choose. Behind that is a committed support office team that helps our people work smarter, improve processes, and deliver a great experience for our employees, leaders and residents.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior P&C Systems Specialist – Payroll to join our People & Culture Shared Services team. This is a key functional and technical role, responsible for ensuring our P&C and payroll systems deliver business value, operational efficiency, compliance and a great user experience.
You will partner closely with P&C, Payroll, Finance, IT, leaders and external vendors to translate business needs into practical system solutions. You will play a lead role in optimising functionality, improving data quality, supporting payroll outcomes, managing integrations and driving continuous improvement across our systems and processes.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as the functional subject matter expert for our system Technology One across its HRIS and payroll functions, providing advice on system capability, configuration, process and design.
- Identify opportunities to improve system functionality, automation, data quality, payroll outcomes and user experience.
- Lead the evaluation, testing and implementation of system enhancements, upgrades and new functionality.
- Partner with Payroll to optimise processes, improve data integrity and support testing, validation, reconciliation and issue resolution.
- Troubleshoot complex system issues and work with IT and external vendors to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Generate reports, dashboards and insights that support decision-making across Summerset
- Manage system access, security profiles and permissions to support strong controls
- Develop user resources, documentation, training materials and FAQs to build capability and support system adoption.
Qualifications:
You will bring a strong mix of systems expertise, payroll knowledge, business analysis and stakeholder engagement skills. You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical audiences, and you enjoy turning business problems into practical, scalable solutions.
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
- Demonstrated experience and confidence working with Technology One is a must have, including system configuration, process optimisation and operational controls.
- Strong functional knowledge of payroll processes and related legislative requirements.
- Experience analysing business requirements and translating them into effective system and process solutions.
- Experience supporting or leading system enhancements, testing, implementation and change.
- Strong understanding of data governance, controls, integrations and reporting.
- Advanced Excel capability and confidence working with data, reports and insights.
- Strong SQL/database skills and excellent numeracy.
- Clear communication, strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to take ownership, challenge the status quo and recommend better ways of working.
Additional Information:
This is a great opportunity to join a purpose-led organisation in a role where your systems expertise will directly support better outcomes for our people and the business.
Some of our great benefits include:
- Flexible working -2 WFH days per week
- Location ideally will be Auckland or Wellington but other NZ locations will be consdiered.
- Free Southern Cross Health Essentials
Ready to apply?
If you are an experienced P&C systems professional with strong payroll knowledge and a passion for continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you.
Apply now and bring your expertise to a team that is focused on making work easier, smarter and more connected. Applications close on 28th July 2026.